are you. trying. to find out is it. the latest news on the week's top stories the birthplace of the arab revolution is simmering again has been gripped protests. of a prominent opposition figure. the while similar scenes have been unfolding in egypt where is mr rulers are accused of a clampdown on freedoms fresh showdowns between police and protesters and the closure of a popular social networking site. protests hope john brennan's confirmation hearing. away from his extensive history of drones

torture and targeted executions. divisive. e.u. budget risks unraveling european parliament threatening to veto your stereo package . to russia's black sea resort of sochi celebrates one year before the start of the most expensive winter then. maybe shuffles on the games officials to keep the from it. from moscow you watching. well it's been a restless week for the country has witnessed a rise in public fury ignited by the assassination of a key opposition figure on wednesday crowds of protesters flocked to the streets of

the capital tunis putting the blame for chalky polaroids murder on the islamist government. is there with more forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the islamist government for creating a religious state in tunisia and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas and not let immediately increase the country's been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika had a chance it's really a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of our comrade becomes the last straw. and to move to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and they bow to protect its citizens to leave i was i was. there so i'm crying because it really was a symbol of the dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country to say that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. the interior

ministry said that one move in and they have joined the ceremony that turned into a political minister station people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shock to be laid on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the city is made and yet to continue and see government protests if they were not allowed to do that at least use tear gas immediately was such a central street was packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different. karine islamist flags people massed to rally in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't do more than five thousand participants and the government used this to illustrate that's their

position was still strong. men did approve the people support and believe our party and. they try to save face but don't have the choice that they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and christenings idea of a possible for this plate and fears are growing the political divisions may lead to even more victims i was threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i want to panic and say x.y.z. that person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger two years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as

a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it may be only now that this fringe that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of bird streets are in. malaysia nationality easier. well another country that still looking for stability for in the arab spring is egypt plumes of smoke until august second for the country's main cities this week ordering street battles between the antigovernment protesters and police of thousands of people on the stones and petrol bombs on race their anger against islamist president unless the political turmoil is also the fuel for

you what is blocking off the video sharing web site you tube for months hosting a controversial anti islam film ati's bill true reports from the capital courier the decision has been received by the opposition. there's been a lot of condemnation of the banned by protest movements to see you keep as a. a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling proposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to an egyptian channel justifying a sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters increased you had a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the generations of five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt say complaining that their president had mostly had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of

friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main running points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between on top of protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups talk to the building out with molotov they're pushed back by take us and want to come in and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed that's improper shake as well as violent clashes and alex. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime seen. but education journalist and blogger. says that nothing has changed since the revolution which overthrew the autocratic rule of president back two years ago but the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like or. governing and i think the way the political actors see it is that was not ruthless enough and did not clamp down on freedoms enough to

sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various web sites that they see as a threat to their rule where we're going to see more waves of protests and we're going to see more violence because if you look at the situation in egypt the regime did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. but coming out battles raged close to the heart of the syrian capital rebels and government forces clash over control of a vital supply road also a week of fierce combat your position says it's preparing for a final assault on c. sharp south. a champion over drone strikes and

barack obama's choice to head the cia john brennan faced his senate confirmation hearing this week there was tension in the room as the session got on the way but it wasn't the lawmakers who were the most vocal from the onset jason catcalls erupted from the audience to a judge with the protesters to be removed lawmakers then prodded brennan on torture cia shortcomings and targeted executions a seemingly reluctant to challenge his own says given brennan is that performance of senator scott and offical and travel says his confirmation could set a troubling precedent. this is a complete our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process. and equal protection of the law and here with the administration is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and saying that we can be judged jury and executioner we can show american citizens abroad without them

having their court we can say they aren't yours and we can kill them and the dangerous is when you look at ministrations we can determine who the jurors did and that means go anywhere in any american citizen without any drugs without any problem and that is a very dangerous precedent. what a closed hearing now awaits john brennan in order to on a sensitive technicalities but already speculation is rife with the direction he might take the cia but on the issue of drones his confirmation they only broaden the horizon for america's unmanned fleets well he's got a chicken ripples. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without

projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use just this young man in pakistan he would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a grown up more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or

terrorist activity so the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the us justice department suggest the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america to somebody a us citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something. that could lead to actions against united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed the spite the un raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the us is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale

he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address claiming that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there is another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in

washington i'm going to shut down. well drones are the only cia issue causing controversy at the moment so i had few the sorrow sounds of americans to take i'm going to take to texas to keep their jobs because once a very intimate questions. will be. clear it's technology innovation all the moves developments from around rush hour we've got the future are covered. government no longer represents the people and the people are going to take the term. we.

lead you to the moon. the way our economic system currently does not have a. good. way. ok with the book i'm back. now a twenty five hour marathon of talks snubs and haggling out left the e.u. with a new budget for bit one that may not have satisfied anyone coming in at nine hundred sixty billion euros it's the first time in the blocks of history that spending plan

has been cut the differences of opinion were visible along a geographical divide if traditionally wealthier countries from the north and by britain calling for cuts and continent wide stereotypes of france and poor e.u. states resisted with spats between opposing the it is threatening to undermine the talks over those chair of the group think tank says it this unity within the e.u. . we have seen the limits of integration here we have different national interests clearly colliding and there is the situation the course national governments are having to impose austerity across europe not just in the eurozone but also in britain because of course there's just not money available and a lot of course there is also another issue to do with the budget and that's to that's to do with the fact that eighteen years now the european court of order to haven't been able to sign off awfully the accounts because

a lot of the spending is goes on wasteful projects but of course more alarmingly it's also subject to a great deal of forth and corruption and that's why literally eighteen years the accounts haven't been fully signed off. of a deal envisions sweeping cuts to a number of e.u. projects including integration and infrastructure where millions of euros are reportedly still being allocated for a p.r. blitz against the blocs of critics on social media websites you're skeptical nigel farage from the u.k. independence party says the project would violate one of the main principles of the rip in parliament. they decided that they going to train in house staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online to look at facebook twitter other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says

a lot about the. good old what about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman in other parliaments around the world but he has all the rest of the staff are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to take any political position and the fact of the parliament decided he's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic. or lying today bush hacked access to the private life of a former president who gets access to the email i counseled she's family some personal photos online or about dot com. and you're the only now foreigners in russia will do military service they receive citizenship even if they've already served and other countries forces.

john to cook's are taking all over russia officially starting the countdown to the start of the sochi winter olympics the black sea resort through a spellbinding celebration marking one year into the games get underway artie's andrew father accept the construction already completed and how much work is still ahead. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its a lengthy dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred unfurnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete

construction long before the end of the year so personal can train and managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the any venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing us what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of. the story what's a rough estimate. this initial price of one point two billion now it's a. one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's limp dick committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in italy take a street they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and

ten billion dollars more than the new some against however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic park which has six pennies all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the. and in the qur'an the bolshoi i studied. the fast arena was you strike spectacular skating show it was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will face the into ice hockey final in the sheeny subtropical like ation the cycle for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because even big park is done by the black sea i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place alone just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid up that there was

a resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon and cross country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road and rail only but i spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval as calamities of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotels all built but the man believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially at this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future there was a brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easel most complete in the black sea resort believes it can and will

deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. soft chief. well the olympic spirit even reached new york this week because un chief ban ki moon join the celebrations for their organizations headquarters and just to remind those action lovers amongst you don't want to miss the games tickets are already on sale and available online. the syrian capital damascus this week saw some of the heaviest fighting in months as rebels advanced on the government strongholds beta spotters were over control of a key highway leading north part off by opposition forces and also seized several

army checkpoints into within a mile on to the rebels say they're preparing for the sysiphus assault on damascus but a satisfactory result is unlikely even if succeeds in toppling the president going into iraq and syria tribune news website. it's just like the rules it will be there and the sun will be nicer ones different than it is down and it's likely that if you have a d.v.d. the can actually call for victims and the right even when the u.s. listed that's it on its black lives the amount of defending it because they know they can accomplish the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and i mean financing. the entity we ask them to do and if they don't do that they will lose the financing and they lose the support so they have to do this in the same plan they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was there it's

a big mess and yet the west would like to see this big mess fall in the currency. now your financial state sex life and personal relationships all information that is apparently relevant to u.s. national security according to the cia thousands of people in america now have to once a very intimate questions or taking obligatory polygraph tests what is reported to the story. for more than three decades john sullivan worked as a polygraph examiner for america's central intelligence agency today the retired cia employee is offering some strong opinions about the nation's lie detector policy too many honest people are too many people who should be passing their tests aren't and there's no there's no accountability for that. last year more than seventy three thousand americans were reportedly required to undergo polygraph tests in order to get or keep jobs with the federal government

according to an investigation by mcclatchy newspapers a growing number of u.s. agencies are asking employees and applicants intimate questions that extend way beyond the realm of national security probing matters such as sexual conduct financial matters and past personal relationships a woman was pressured to talk about her experience being molested as a child and when the polar bear for said that he refused to go on with the interrogation he alleges that he was pressured to go back and continue interrogating our scientists found that polygraphs aren't reliable enough to prevent innocent people from failing and deceptive candidates from passing i think it's important to understand that the polygraph is not just. for screening it's an interrogation tool lisa ribicoff is an independent polygraph examiner and investigator who uses the polygraph program designed by homeland security she

contends that it's ninety eight percent accurate i do think that there are some questions pertaining to some emotional aspects and personal situations should not be included but i do understand why they're included on the basis of that the government needs to see how exactly what their breaking point is however applicants who are denied a coveted position after failing up. holograph are prohibited from accessing the records of their interrogation and are often barred from contesting the results were filing complaints in federal court in two thousand and four the cia veteran who conducted lie detector interrogations for thirty one years failed his own screening there was absolutely no question in my mind the test was right you know it's this was a terrible test sullivan lost his security clearance and was denied a job with a federal contracting agency he claims his examiner falsified the results possible retribution for sullivan book detailing america's polygraph system the obama

administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security bring up or not our team in new york. well coming up we'll take an in-depth look at the occupy movement in the u.s. the breaking. secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the

attack on the u.s. consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chatting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidentally or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who.